HPE Zerto Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a cloud-based way to protect your data and applications so you can quickly resume operations after an outage, cyberattack, or natural disaster.

Instead of building and managing your own secondary disaster recovery (DR) site, you back up your data and IT infrastructure to a third-party cloud environment, delivered by HPE and its managed service provider (MSP) partners. If a disruption occurs, that cloud environment restores access and functionality.

Key points about how it works:

• Continuous data protection (CDP): HPE Zerto continuously captures and replicates changes, creating a stream of recovery checkpoints. You can rewind anything from a single file to an entire data center.
• Near-zero data loss and short downtime: The solution is designed to deliver very low RPOs and RTOs—near-zero data loss with downtime measured in minutes.
• Cloud-based recovery: Your workloads can be recovered to, from, or between multiple public and private clouds, supporting hybrid and multicloud strategies.
• Software-only approach: HPE Zerto is a software-only solution that underpins more than 350 MSPs’ DRaaS offerings, giving you a broad ecosystem of partners and deployment options.

The result is a DR approach that helps you maintain 24/7 access to services and data, while reducing the complexity of building and running your own DR environment.

HPE Zerto is designed to help you rethink how you handle ransomware events and DR testing, so you can respond faster and with more confidence.

For ransomware resilience:

• Journal checkpoints: HPE Zerto maintains a journal of recovery checkpoints, allowing you to roll back to a point in time within seconds of when an infection occurred.
• Automated failover and failback: In the event of an attack, you can use fully automated failover and failback to recover encrypted files and data in minutes, minimizing downtime and data loss.

For nondisruptive testing:

• Test anytime without impact: You can run failover, development, and QA tests at any time without affecting production systems.
• Support for aggressive SLAs: Because testing is nondisruptive, it becomes easier to validate that you can meet aggressive service-level agreements (SLAs) for availability and recovery.

Together, these capabilities help you reimagine your DR strategy—from reactive recovery to a more proactive, testable, and resilient approach to cyber threats.

HPE Zerto is built to fit different organizational sizes, skills, and budgets, giving you options in how you deploy, pay for, and manage disaster recovery.

Deployment flexibility:

• Self-managed to fully managed: You can choose a model that ranges from self-managed to partially or fully managed by an HPE Zerto MSP.
• Clear roles and responsibilities: You can explicitly define what your team manages and what your MSP handles.
• Minimal re-architecting: You can manage, access, and protect workloads and applications without major changes to your existing data center architecture.
• No vendor lock-in: HPE Zerto supports DR and mobility across public and private clouds, as well as hybrid and multicloud deployments, helping you avoid being tied to a single provider.

Predictable, consumption-based billing:

• Pay-as-you-go model: DRaaS is offered with predictable, consumption-based pricing, which can simplify budgeting.
• Scales with your business: As your enterprise grows, migrates, or expands, the billing model is designed to scale with you.

Staffing and ease of use:

• Software-only interface: The interface is designed to be easy to use regardless of where your workloads are stored.
• Lower expertise requirements: Because of this simplicity, you can lessen the need for highly specialized DR skills, even as your infrastructure options evolve.
• Fast onboarding: HPE Zerto can typically be up and running in under an hour, helping you avoid disruption to daily operations during deployment.

These options allow you to reshape how you approach DR—aligning technology, cost, and staffing with your organization’s specific needs.